Beans And Rice For Passover? A Divisive Question Gets The Rabbis' OK
As a Latina who married into a Jewish family, I've long lobbied my in-laws to include beans and rice on the Passover menu. The holiday is a time when Jews avoid leavened foods in commemoration of their...
View ArticlePalestinians create seed bank to save their farming heritage in the Holy...
In the rocky hills of the Palestinian West Bank, farmers learned long ago how to adapt to extremes of climate that make spring the shortest season. In a part of the world where agriculture was first...
View ArticleThink a Soda Tax Is Regressive? Try Diabetes
The beverage industry has a variety of go-to defense arguments when faced with the threat of a soda tax like San Francisco's Proposition E. "Freedom of choice" is popular, and a deliberate...
View ArticleNicolai Wammen, Defense Minister, Government of Denmark: Not to again use the...
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View ArticleWhy Don't These Veterans' Lives Matter?
Freedom is not something that comes for free. There is a big price for the liberties we enjoy in the United States. Our veterans unfortunately know this too well and sadly, are still waiting to receive...
View ArticleLeft Hand Pair (Men's Large): Patio, Lawn & Garden
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View ArticleSperm Whales Found Full of Car Parts and Plastics
Im Magen der Pottwale waren: 13m Fischernetz, Motorabdeckung Ford, Eimer und div anderer Müll.#meeresschutz A photo posted by Robert Habeck (@robert.habeck) on Mar 23, 2016 at 7:49am PDT Fishing gear...
View ArticleWho says bacon is bad?
Processed meat, such as bacon, ranks alongside plutonium as a carcinogen, according to an arm of the WHO. Here’s how such assessments happen – and what they mean
View ArticleMedical journal editor confronts corruption of scientific research
It's unusual to watch one of the world's most powerful editors in scientific publishing play with a marionette puppet. But Dr. Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, specializes in the unexpected. The...
View ArticleIf Bottled Water Is So Bad, Why Are Sales Hitting Records?
Bottled water is poised to become the king of beverages in the United States. Despite the fact that more than a dozen colleges have banned sale of bottled water at campus dining facilities, that sales...
View ArticleMourning Loomis Reef
Stretching for half a kilometre or so, Loomis Reef is the place where the alarm bells started going off. Prof Justin Marshall has been diving this reef, about 270km north of Cairns, for 30 years. Right...
View ArticleFighting Food Waste with Ugly Fruit and Veg Founder, Jordan Figueiredo
On May 10, GRACE is proud to be joining a coalition of nonprofits, government agencies and civil institutions to host Feeding the 5000 NYC, an event created to raise public awareness about food waste...
View ArticleUpcoming DEADLINES for Federal Food and Farm Grant Programs
As warmer weather settles in, farmers are busy planting crops, livestock are grazing on pasture, and farmers markets across the country are once again full of shoppers. All of this activity means...
View ArticleThis Earth Day, Help Fight Deforestation and Climate Change One Hamburger at...
Building on the momentum of the Climate Accord in Paris and the upcoming meeting of global leaders on Earth Day to sign a historic climate change agreement, the Earth Day Network is launching a...
View ArticleSustainable Food Trust
NPR The Salt – Monday 18th April Fascinating new research turns thinking on dairy fat on its head. Dairy fat is saturated fat, which has long been thought to be bad for your health. However, there is a...
View ArticleUS moves to sell gene-edited mushrooms fuel doubts over British ban on GM...
American regulators have allowed the cultivation and sale of two crops modified with the gene-editing technique known as Crispr. The crops – a white button mushroom and a form of corn – are the first...
View ArticleHow Relieving Student-Loan Debt Helps Farming
This is the first spring Davon Goodwin will spend running his own farm. The young farmer is planting grapes and elderberries and raising pastured pork and lamb on Off The Land (OTL) Farms. He’s leasing...
View ArticleBoosting the Future of the Food Movement
Civil Society, Conferences, Cooperatives, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Environment, Featured, Food & Agriculture, Gender, Headlines, Trade & Investment “I grow food, I feed...
View ArticleWhy Food Belongs in Our Discussions of Race
In the wake of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown, the Baltimore uprising after the death of Freddie Gray, and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, much has...
View ArticleCVS Pharmacy Announces Voluntary Recall of Gold Emblem Abound Organic Spiced...
CVS Pharmacy -800-SHOP-CVSMike DeAngelis, CVS Health Corporate Communications michael.deangelis@cvshealth.com 401-770-2645 View Product Photos CVS Pharmacy® announced today that it has voluntarily...
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